YSaC, Vol. 611: But I just had it blubled!
2010 March 20
budlight helmet and budlightunblubler – $85
Take your guesses now — what do you think a budlightunblubler is?
budlight helmet and budlightunblubler – $85
this is a football helmet cooler it has carolina pather on the side of it stand about 21” high
it will make a good tailgate party cooler are a collectable and have a budlight patio table unb
you can put it around the pool are on the back deck with your table. call me at xxx-xxx-xxxx
are email me at xxxxxxxxxxx@yahoo.com
Did you guess umbrella? I love the fact that within the ad they abbreviate budlightunblubler as unb.
I’m also amused horrified by the fact that the poster consistently misspells “or” as “are”. Are they indistinguishable in a mid-Atlantic/Southern accent?
Thanks for the submission, Rachel!
I like how in the text of the ad the seller realizes that he can’t spell “umbrella” and just writes “unb” (which is still wrong).
What sort of keyboard spasm would lead to “unblubler” if you meant “umbrella”? Or is it a dialect thing?
Unbrella I can believe. Not everyone knows what the root umbra means, so transmogrifying the word into something with a recognizable prefix makes stupidness sense.
Maybe if I try to inbreed the word, over several generations…
Unbrella …
Unbrulla …
Unbrubla … ??
Unbrubler …
Unblubler???
I still don’t buy it.
Won’t even pseudo-conjugate–
umbrella, unbrella, sombreller, sombrero, some bubble, unbubble?
(so funny to see Fire Fox’s spell-check annoyed at the apropos above)
I mean, really, at least yesterday we could have had strick, strack, struck (and one presumes, strock, to be followed with Ni-wonga’ktow’ktow! obviously).
Isaac-
How about this:
After 3 Bud Lights: Unbrella
After 6 Bud Lights: Unbrulla
After 9 Bud Lights: Unbrubla
After 12 Bud Lights: Unbrubler
After 15 Bud Lights: Unblubler
If the poster hadn’t passed out at that point he could have made it to Blunburbler…
Right now, all I can hear in my head is the Rihanna song playing with ‘unblubler’ in place of the actual word. I keep breaking into insane, manic and uncontrollable fits of giggles that tail off into sobs.
Obviously, the football-helmet-cooler owner wants Michael Buble to have a Bud Light or 7, as he has.
Duh.
Unfortunately, the “or”/”are” situation isn’t that surprising.
Or you suggesting that such slips are solecisms or not unusual?
My students insist on interchanging in and and. As in, “Me in my brother skipped school yesterday.” They don’t really make the distinction when they speak, so I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised that they don’t do it when they write.
That is bad! I thought it was supposed to be, “My brother in I…”
Either way, there are laws against that sort of thing!
In some states, more than one kind of law!
[corey] Not to derail the gutter train, but I’ve heard ” ‘n” used as a contraction of “and”. As in “Me ‘n you ‘n a dog named Blue…”[/corey]
You may resume your smutty snark now.
Not to outcorey anyone, but it’s “a dog named Boo.”
Really? I always thought it was Blue.
*quick Google break*
Imagine that. Whoever heard of naming their dog Boo?
We had a dog named Boo when I was little.
Isaac, were you travelin’ and a-livin’ off the land?
That phase came a lot later, actually.
You guys and your English semantics teach me so much that I never cared to know! Writing scientific papers does not lend itself to perfect grammar. >_> Fascinating what I now know!
My friend’s parents had a dog named Boo, but it was because of the song.
Our dog was named Boo because I was too little to be able to pronounce “Blue,” which originally going to be her name.
There is a person on a forum I am on that uses “well” for “while.” So, she would say drinking well driving. Drives me crazy every time!!
I have a friend who says “what” when she means “that.” “The cabinet what won’t close,” for example.
That sounds almost… British. *thinks* Well, maybe not British, but I KNOW I’ve heard it somewhere. I just seem to think I’ve heard it on a British sitcom.
I know people who can get drunk quickly, but not so fast that they’re blitzed before they even finish the title for a CL ad. THAT is a lightweight! Bravo for realizing this, although I think you’d be safe sticking with Bud Light.
I heard it as a Boston area frat boy accent:
“Whersh ma cah? Oh schnap iss rainin’. Whersh ma unblubler?”
I have no idea why I posted as a reply to Meredith.
I suspect that the website’s coding occasionally submits to the rules of Cat Math.
That’s my theory and I’m stickin’ to it.
Local result: 2 Fenway dogs w/ hot mustard, a crab cake, and 16-shiny!!11!!
Speaking of drunk, I love guinness.
And I’ve been gone for a bit. Mostly. But no one noticed, so it’s all good 😀
The “budlightunblubler” misspelling is such a clusterf*ck that the “pather” is practically correct.
Although they might have to change the logo. “Pather” is probably either some kind of woodland guide or a 4×4.
Pather is a small suburb of Wishaw, Scotland and was initially built as a council estate. All the streets in Pather are named after Scottish Lochs except Hospital Road, which is an offshoot of the road that used to pass the now demolished Wishaw Hospital.
Sorry, I’m just a helpless Google addict…….
I’m always interested in (don’t ask) Scottish minutiae, so no need to apologize.
*makes obscure note*
Thanks, B…….!
Och, ane ay ken frae porrig’ unmade, wit thae bra culd rain hammert dane ane present noon. Thea bett’r frae a wee dram ta gie shiny ta th’ day ane syne.
B, I think you just came up with a great idea for a Blog! The Daily Google! Go for it.
Heh! That’s a great idea Windrose. But with my terminal case of attention-deficit disorder the blog wouldn’t last a week……
I didn’t even notice “pathers.”
Thilly CL posther, the Pathers aren’t a football teram, they’re Indiana’th bathketball team.*
*not meant as a slight towards people with lisps, just channeling my inner Sylvester the cat.
They make our lithenth plateth.
I thought it was a tumbler from which to drink the Bud Light (Not that I would actually drink Bud Light). Why would he want to drink Bud Light from an umbrella? Is this a strange man are what……..
I’m not sure if anyone else noticed this, what with the incredible speeling poblems and the wonderous grammar(or lack there of), but the photos are in black and white.
It’s subtle, since the team colors are grey, black, and blue, but it should look like this;
http://www.envoycollectables.com/images/testaverdepanthersfs.JPG
Oh, I see! It’s an un-blue-bler.
There’s a Photoshop filter that would have made it an unblue blur. Too bad Sparky isn’t more Photoshompetent.
Portmanteau word of the day. Or do you get an Ike award? Can you give one of those to yourself?
I had a Pather, waaaaaaay back in the day…it looked like an overweight VW and wath allllll glath…boy, that wath fun in the thummertime.
Ahh, yeth, we called them the Fithbowl….
There was a beer can hat that completed the trio but after the incident with the pather and accountant’s stripper roommate under the budlightunblubler……..
Dear Craig’s List Poster;
You or a hopeless excuse for humanity! Are you or just plain stupid. I’m not sure which you or but please stop the assault on my eyes which occurs when you post. And you or really insane to think someone would pay you $85 for that cr*p. Are maybe you or just too greedy for your own good.
A “budlightunblubler ” is obviously a diet aid for morbidly obese cetaceans…
I thought it was a device for adding carbonation to a large barrel of crappy beer.
Or possibly a device for removing carbonation from the crappy beer.
Or maybe crappy beer in a water fountain in the Northeast U.S.?
Or, in the spirit of the Swiss Army, maybe it’s all three devices: a tun-bubbler, an unbubbler, and Bud Light in a bubbler?
Hey, is this another thing we can blame watercraft owners along the Inter-Coastal Waterway?
Getting the manatees hooked on diet beer has to be laid to the pinipedae somehow, does it not?
As I always say, “Lett uh smial bee yoor unblubler!”
My dad is a huge Carolina Pather fan.
Oh, then he would be very interested in the Unblubler! (patent pending)
Interesting, not one capital letter or punctuation mark in sight, the words he couldn’t spell aren’t even close to correct yet this poster knows that the symbol for inches is “.
As for why the pictures are in black/white, I think he was probably thinking, “Well, all them fancy pichers err in black in white. I’ll put mine in black in white in people will think mine err fancy too”. This cat would probably take a picture of a sunset in black and white too.
I fear you give the poster too much credit.
It is my contention that OP needed copies of the photos and xeroxed them before handing them over to be scanned at the Kinkos or library (oops, OP would only go to the liebarry).
*twitch*
*twitch twitch*
As a card-carrying (well, degree-carrying, actually) librarian, few mispronunciations get under my skin like “lie-barrian” and “lie-barry.” While I don’t actually know it for a fact, I would be completely unsurprised to learn that a lot of this sort of poster said it that way …
*twitch*
Carry on, that is all.
Lie-berry gets under your skin like Feb-yoo-erry gets under mine. It’s clearly FebRuary, not Febuary.
I’m proud to say that I never said/thought “lie-berry.” [Crap, I have no idea if that period should be in the quotes or not.] I could see that it was obviously “libra-ree” because I’m a Libra. Don’t say astrology never did anyone any good.
…and shun the frumious Budlightersnatch!
shun the frumious Budlightersnatch!
and clearly not Snark, but Bublerjum, forsooth!
… He took his vorpal unb in hand,
Long time the pather foe he sought, …
My other assumption is that the guy was having his head dunked in a bucket of water as he dictated this to someone typing.
“light…unblubbbb….”
“What was that?”
“lightunblubler”
“Oooookay then…got it. Anything else?”
“glub glub glub..”
I’ve heard of those gangs of thugs that go around and dunk unsuspecting folks in water until the dictate a Craigslist ad. Vicious!
“Sell this Lion painting for me! Sell it!”
“But it’s not a lio…glub glub”
“SELL IT!!!”
You can stand under his unblubler-ubler-ubler.
Totally Off Topic, but evidence has begun to surface and must be brought to this forum. This is how it begins. Inter-species SNORGALING! Involving an OSTRICH! Can the emu be far behind? How different is a giraffe from a llama?
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/unleashed/2009/08/giraffe-ostrich-best-friends-busch-gardens.html
Oh, the humanity!
We’re the original interspecies snorgling pair.
That’s going to be in the next Summer Olympics…right?
That’s so fucking adorable.
Yes that expletive was unnecessary.
That giraffe must be a cunning linguist…..
“By the shores of Gitchee Gumee,
By the shining big unblubler,
Stood the cooler of the Budlight,
Drinkable not, in any Tipi.”
With sincere apologies to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow…..
Gosh I had no idea the poster meant umbrella – not even after seeing the photos. Is there not a law against being so stupid in public?
It does look more like a parisawl.
tigprincess,
As you have the ASBO, or Anti-Social Behaviour Order citation for public unruliness there in the UK, perhaps we could institute something similar here – call it the AIBO, or Anti-Intellectual Behavior Order …
Yes, and we could program a small army of dog-shaped robots to enforce the Anti-Intellectual Behavior Order.
Off-topic, but I just made a new topic in the forumses. I wouldn’t have brought it up here if it weren’t important, so do check it out. (Or click on my username to see the whole deal right off the bat.) Especially if you’re an animal lover. Even though it will probably make you blubler.
I can’t reply yet, too … affected, but thank you for posting.
The difference one person can make is astounding. And even if you don’t believe you have done very much, Lareina, you brought this incredible story to light here and on facebook. I repeat, you are my hero.
coyttl, here’s a quick punch– sorry, almost forgot! Good quote, too. I was sure Tacowagic would have gotten in again with the blowing roommate remark. 8) But pithy carried the day again. Good job.
You can stand under my unblubler
You can stand under my unblubler
( ubler ubler eh eh eh )
I’m guessing the poster was doing it on St. Patrick’s day and was Irish…
As I currently live in the Carolinas, I can confirm that “or” and “are” and also “our” are almost interchangable here. *shudder*
And it’s normally pronounced “arr” no matter what the spelling is.
Don’t EVER imply that ANYTHING is mid-Atlantic/Southern! I live in the mid-Atlantic, and I can assure you that my relatives’ Southern accents are almost completely unintelligible.
I know that the Baltimore accent is quite horrendous – but don’t you DARE call us Southern!
/rant
😉
Sorry. I know some people from North Carolina who have Mid-Atlantic accents, and some who have downright southern accents, so I was trying to cover all bases, not lump them together!
And the Baltimore accent is amazing. I’d never heard anything like that before … hun.
Haha, my new bestest friend is from Maryland, and he talks so similarly to christopher walken that it’s hard to not believe that everyone there is awesome.
I’m from Bawlmer. But I’ve never heard anyone there talk like Christopher Walken. We just go downy ayshen inna summer, hun.
That is the funniest thing I have ever read – I am crying! I LOVE this website!!
Yay!
He’s the Carolina unblubler from Company B!
I got it! It’s for all the Michael Buble haters out there!
Get your very own un-Buble-r! Every time you hear “Sway” on the radio or “I Just Haven’t Met You Yet” on the MUZAK, the un-Buble-r will close up and engulf you like a cocoon and protect you with the soothing tones of Anthrax or Lady Gaga.
(Silly Sparky, adding an extra “l” to describe an authentic, new antique un-Buble-r. Don’t these guys know how to spell?)
How dare you place Anthrax and that dude in the same sentence!
To be, are not too many bees, is that a question?
Weather has unblubler on the mind, is a whole ‘nother
The things an collectables for a outrageous talegait party
And I can’t say no more, on account of my arms’ givin me trouble.
—Football Hemlet with Carolina pathos on the side
If you bought a brand of beer that wasn’t prone to becoming blubled in the first place, you wouldn’t have to buy an unblubler. Just a suggestion.
Assuming you have a very small pool. Or a very long unblublical cord.
I have absolutely nothing funny to say, but this is one of my favorite YSAC posts of all time.
Gostie and IF, I wish I had a really awesome prize for your days in the box. But at least here is your Punchity Punch Punch!
Good Morning, Poppins’ House of Unblublers!
As everyone were getting ready for much of our last switch, Sarah and even I boxed up a good number of our DVD AND BLU-RAY collection.